Patrick Diaz

Chief of Legal Knowledge Management

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Education

JD, The George Washington University Law School, 1987; Order of the Coif

BA, Williams College, 1981

Admissions / Qualifications

Qualifications

Illinois, 2013

Massachusetts, 1994

New York, 1988

Memberships & Affiliations

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Boston Bar Association

Patrick Diaz

Chief of Legal Knowledge Management

Patrick Diaz serves as Chief of Legal Knowledge Management at Ropes & Gray, where he helps practice groups develop, retain and share information and best practices, to enhance our ability to provide excellent legal services in a cost-effective manner. Patrick is a member of the firm’s staff senior leadership team and reports to the chief operating officer. Patrick has over two decades of experience as a business lawyer representing companies and private equity funds in connection with merger and acquisition and other transactions, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, debt and equity financings, add-on acquisitions, agreements among investors, management incentive arrangements, corporate restructurings and exit transactions, and served as a partner in the private equity transactions group from 1996 to 2013.

Represented Bain Capital and Interpath in connection with acquisition of USinternetworking and subsequent sale to AT&T.

Represented various PE fund and other clients in connection with range of other investments in industries ranging from software, information services, staffing, hospital and healthcare, restaurant, building products, gaming, exercise equipment, investment management, publishing and other businesses.